June 19, 1972 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
Sierra Club publications take up the cudgel with a new environmental trio
Yesterday/Your Move
It's Your Move (Clank, Whirr), Mister Turk
An 18th-century chess machine succeeded for 65 years in fooling most of the people all of the time, and vice versa. It might have gone on longer if the man inside had kept his trap shut
On Two Wheels
TWO-WHEEL ASSAULT ON AN ISLAND
Away they roared, up, down and all around Manxland in the last of the real road races, led by an Italian hero who was hell-bent for leather
By Robert F. Jones
On a clear day Riva Ridge ran forever, leading from start to finish in the Belmont Stakes. But for a dislike of stormy weather and muddy tracks, he probably would have won the elusive Triple Crown
Eye On The Ball
KEEPING A CLOSE EYE ON THE BALL
Which is what the women pros did last week, especially when it belonged to Jane Blalock, who was accused of cheating
Following the example of other pro sports, an upstart league is betting $2 million it can swipe Bobby Hull from the established NHL and hack it out on the ice in a test of the continent's hockey hunger
By Mark Mulvoy
Dan Gable
Dan Gable, known to his family as The Kid and to 10 Russian wrestlers as the man they couldn't beat, believes that all work and no play is how to get a gold
By Herman Weiskopf
Stream Of Memories
SENTINELS ALONG A STREAM OF MEMORIES
By Dan Levin
Baseball
Reggie Jackson slugs the former and everybody sports the latter on his upper lip as the talent-rich Oakland A's rip through their division
By Ron Fimrite
By Ron Reid
Track & Field
George Woods, Randy Matson or Al Feuerbach should win the shot at the Olympics—unless one of three East Germans puts them to shame
By Pat Putnam
Hunting
Waterfowl pigs can root their way all through Mexico, where laws are lax and the sky is the limit
Big D
Lamar Hunt of Dallas owns three ball clubs, 32 tennis pros, all kinds of little old oil wells—and one suit. As he has cheerfully said, "I do detest ostentation"
By Jack Olsen
For The Record
A roundup of the week June 6-12
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
By J. Richard Munro
Edited by Robert W. Creamer